School Mumbo-Jumbo

Once again Texas Education Agency is putting more attention to taks scores than the grades students are getting in class as stated in Star Telegram. I chose this article because its something that everyone i know and myself have gone through back when we were in grade school. The TEA is more into into the taks test scores than what students grades were in the class because they wanted to make sure that the students were actually learning the material, but like always the TEA always makes new steps in taks scores and what they consider passing. They also put way more series of test that students have to take over the year because some students in school dont meet the required scores that they set. In 2010 the TEA has set the passing grade for 7th grade is 670 and the passing grade for 8th grade is 700, but it will keep changing over the years. This article is pretty accurate because when i was in grade school this was the same thing i had to go through, first we only had to take they taks test once a year, then it ended up changing to twice a year and the required scoring to pass also changed every year too. They would also pay more attention to our taks scores than what they would our class grades, even if we passed our regular classes with straight A's that would seem like it wouldnt be enough because our taks scores were so low or wouldnt meet the standard requirements that they had set.